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The missing pieces in detail

Once seen, the work of Marit Guinness Aschan is instantly recognisable. Her plique-a-jour enamelled jewellery has a uniquely fluid and contemporary feel with intense colouring. Even if you cannot appreciate her mastery of her highly original and difficult techniques, you cannot mistake it for anyone eles's work. Typically, the jewellery enamel is laid down over a matrix of coiled gold wire - but sometimes the wire may be silver and/or gilt, or laid in a different pattern. A few use pearls.

There is little information available on some of the missing pieces. Unfortunately, they disappeared before the exhibitors could record and catalogue them properly - we have only a few snaps and the artist's sketches to go on.

To give you a better idea of their detailed appearance, here are three pieces which escaped or have been recovered. This page shows only small 'thumbnail' pictures - to see a bigger picture, click on the small one. (If you were shown any of these three while they were 'hot' we still want to hear from you!)

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And here are a selection of the ones that are still missing - to see a bigger picture, click on the small one. We have not been able to show the smaller pieces, such as finger rings, and some pieces may have no record at all. So remember, there are many others similar to these.

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Updated 3 Feb 2008

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